Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities unveils HouseZero project, an ambitious retrofit of its Cambridge headquarters
The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) has revealed its centerpiece initiative:…
Topic Energy
Materials, buildings, landscapes, cities, and urbanization are all overtly connected energy hierarchies that must be lucidly understood as the basis of any design agenda for energy today.
Design for Recovery: Fieldwork in Nepal & Somalia
During January of 2016, a group of GSD students travelled to Nepal and Kenya, to…
Mobilizing Habitations: Re-Imagining Nomadic Architecture in the Sub-Saharan Sahel Region
by Aman Singhvi (MDes ’16) As land is increasingly commoditized with an upsurge in population,…
On Adapting
by Caio Barboza (MArch ’16) and Sofia Blanco Santos (MArch ’16) — Recipient of the James Templeton…
Heterotic Architecture: Stacks, Chimneys & Chutes
by Joshua Feldman (MArch ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 James Templeton Kelly Prize The…
The Littleton Trials
by David Kennedy (MDes ’16), Jacob Mans (MDes ’16), and Benjamin Peek (MDes ’16)—Recipient of the…
Hyperbolic Cosines: Recasting Form Finding to Induce Ventilation Performance
We explored the allometric potential of a funicular catenary form to both modulate interior climatic…
Show/Flow
by Andrew Keating (MArch ’17 ) and Scott Smith (MArch ’17 ) This project hybridizes…
Horizon House: A Retreat in Nature
Horizon House was developed by a team of eight students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and was selected First Place in the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition, held on April 20, 2013 in Tokyo. The competition focused on the concept of…